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Extreme Championship Wrestling personified its essence through brutality, rampant sexuality and thanks to Owner Paul Heyman, logical booking that accentuated the strengths of his ever-changing roster and deemphasized its weaknesses.

Unfortunately, its biggest weakness came financially.

Without a new national television deal, ECW only lived on Pay-Per-View, but it wasn’t a given that when Guilty As Charged aired in January 2001, it’d be the last time they’d grace airwaves.

Axe the two house shows that followed this and you can even call this the final chapter if you choose to.

What it’ll be remembered best is for the potential of what could’ve been, but it worked out for the two companies to form from ECW’s ashes and for that, we’ll need the jury to be unanimous here. No objections.

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(Aired 1/7/16)

Intoxicated Balls And The Sad Bearded Man

– There was plenty of “Shining” Edward Jackson to go around on this episode, to no complaints. His promo in the PWS studio alongside David Adams hyped the later Fallah Bahh-Abyss match, saying that even though Abyss was a familiar face in PWS since day one, his client was younger, faster and had his whole career ahead of him. Is there anything this guy can’t sell you? His impersonations of various PWS talent were spot-on too. Evidently, Adams didn’t receive any fresh mint mouthwash for christmas last year. Yikes.

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(Aired 9/9/15)

The Dirtiest Martini In The Bar

– The opening video chronicled the much-hyped three-way hardcore PWS Championship rematch where Dan Maff finally completed his personal comeback and emerged the new Champion, in a match chock-full of chairs, blood, barbed wire, staple guns, a 2×4, thumbtacks, tables and a defining Burning Hammer through a door. It’s the era of Maff indeed. Would’ve been nice to have some follow-up promos on this since it was the only time mentioned in the show, but perhaps it’s for the future.

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(Aired 7/15/15)

Quoth The Monsters, Nevermore

– Given last week’s shocking ending that saw Devon Moore turn on his longtime partner Kevin Matthews, joining the “Shining” Edward Jackson Family in the process, after Jackson revealed himself to be Helmet, it was good to see that covered in the opening video a la “fan footage” that sold the crowd’s reaction. Also liked the little flashbacks with all of Matthews’ interactions with Helmet in the past, building up to the turning point. What was disappointing here was that there were no follow-up promos or segments on this show. Something like Moore with The Jackson Family or Matthews vowing for revenge would’ve been perfect for this show. We’d imagine they’ll pick right back up on this angle, but they should’ve struck while the iron was hot.

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(Aired 6/23/15)

Double Trouble

– It only made sense for The Aesthetic Enterprise to get put into the match against Monster’s Island as Bonesaw’s partners, only eager to wrestle once finding out Balls Mahoney would also be in the match. Bring on the many testicle puns. Where exactly do Phillip Simon II and The Scranton Strangler fit into things though? That was never quite explained to us. Doesn’t Bonesaw have no friends?

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(Aired 1/11/15)

Can’t Beat The Boricua Beast

– David Adams led off the show again as he hyped up the matches for the show and how to bring PWS to your hometown.

– The bathroom segment with Adams, Fallah Bahh and “Shining” Edward Jackson seemed unorthodox with obvious bathroom humor, but Jackson put over Homicide and set up the match well. That aside though, it’s still a little hard to take a top heel like Bahh seriously when it almost looked like he might miss his match because of being stuck on the toilet bowl.

– The Bahh-Homicide match almost had a “Hogan-Andre” aspect to it, but a little less polished. It had just enough time, but the finish was still rather anticlimactic, as Bahh sat on Homicide. The celebration with The Heavenly Bodies was also fitting to show the whole faction was in fact, in power,

– The vignette with PWS World Champion Mario “The Croatian Sensation” Bokara was straightforward in showing his style of training, rather dominant. Being the company’s champion, this was necessary, though since he was the Champion, maybe a buffer match would have sufficed.

– The flying four corners match between Matt Macintosh, Shynron, Anthony Nese and Amazing Red was energetic, as all four competitors brought something different to the match. Anybody could have actually won this, but Macintosh appeared to be the one on the verge of a push, as he pinned Shynron to win after Shynron delivered a crazy Van Terminator diagonally across the ring.

– A vignette played with cowboys in it shooting people dead. Oh, it was those scary guys from last week. The child said, “It’s only a dream!” again and the guys were introduced as Monster’s Island.

– Mahoney and Gibbs came out brawling, and then Beefcake Charlie came out to assist Gibbs. Jay “Top Dollar” Enterprise – publicist of The Aesthetic Enterprise, came out to help them too. Gibbs had scissors and cut off Mahoney’s ponytail and shaved him with clippers. Monster’s Island made their first in-ring appearance and dominated everybody. Good way to introduce them, though they still came off as The Wyatt Family: Circus Edition.

– The Dan Maff-Eddie Kingston match was a back and forth match, the announcers put over Maff as a tough guy and a beast and Kingston as well. Evenly matched as it gets, it could have gone either way. Both did their finishers and it took several times for Maff to eventually came out the win. Strong match here.

– The Kevin Matthews/Lance Hoyt-Brian Myers/Gabe Tuft match was all about revenge for Matthews, who cut a promo at the top of the ramp and said he talked to the company owner and made the match No DQ and introduced Hoyt in a Mike Myers mask, who was behind Tuft/Myers in the ring and attacked before revealing himself. The action went up to the ramp as well. Matthews gave Myers a pile driver on a standing chair at one point. Myers/Tuft stole the pin and came out with the win. Decent match.

– Next week, Adams hyped the appearance of Zach Gowen/Gregory Iron – “The Handicapped Heroes,” a “Gold Rush” Number One Contender Ladder match between Starman and Bonesaw and a Suicidal Six Way with Habib From The Car Wash, The Amazing Red, Matt Macintosh, Brian XL, Lifeguard and Shynron. The PWS belt would also be defended as Bokara takes on Colt Cabana.